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世上沒有政府可以在治下的「消費者」長期不合作的情況下長久維繫。即使在帝制中國，國民無法透過投票表達政見，上書帝王、科舉入仕、武裝革命，皆可為之。《尚書．湯誓》所說的「時日曷喪，吾與汝偕亡」，就是最後（也是成本最高）的方式。古人以性命為代價與政府溝通，自然令人唏噓，亦是現代文明社會所不當再現。在今日高度文明的香港，市民在政治寒冬中不勝重負，接二連三地對政府以死相諫，亦出現不少絕食者以傷害自己的方式與政府溝通，更是讓人有切膚之痛。對自己的傷害及主動終結生命可說是非暴力抗爭的最後一
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“Newspapers are owned and published by rich men. Rich men all belong to the same club. Sure, there’s competition – hard, tough competition for circulation, for newsbeats, for exclusive stories.”
― The Long Goodbye
― The Long Goodbye
“In Hollywood anything can happen, anything at all.”
― The Long Goodbye
― The Long Goodbye
“smoke if you had anything to smoke, and think if you had anything to think about that didn’t make you feel worse than not thinking at all.”
― The Long Goodbye
― The Long Goodbye
“He looks at you or doesn’t. You look at him. He says nothing and you say nothing. There is nothing to communicate.”
― The Long Goodbye
― The Long Goodbye
“There was a sad fellow over on a bar stool talking to the bartender, who was polishing a glass and listening with that plastic smile people wear when they are trying not to scream.”
― The Long Goodbye
― The Long Goodbye
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